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An in vitro method generating base substitutions in preselected regions of plasmid DNA: application to structural analysis of the replication origin of the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome
Authors:A Oka  K Sugimoto  H Sasaki  M Takanami
Affiliation:1. Laboratory of Molecular Biology Kyoto University, Uji-shi, Kyoto-fu 611 Japan;2. Research Facility for Nucleic Acids, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji-shi, Kyoto-fu 611 Japan
Abstract:A method for introducing base substitutions in defined regions of plasmid DNA has been developed. In principle, a circular heteroduplex DNA containing a gap is constructed by annealing of two kinds of linear molecules derived from the same plasmid: One is the molecule shortened either by exonucleolytic digestion from the termini generated at a restriction site or by removal of a region flanked by two restriction sites, and the other the full-length molecule linearized at a different site. The deleted region in the shorter linear molecule becomes a single-stranded gap in the circular heteroduplex DNA. The heteroduplex is then treated with sodium bisulfite that converts specifically cytosine residues to uracil residues in single-stranded regions. After filling in the gap by repair synthesis, transformation is carried out to isolate mutant plasmids. Since two kinds of circular heteroduplexes are formed by annealing in which the sequences in the gaps are complementary to each other, mutagenesis of both strands can be accomplished in one experiment. This method was applied to construction of mutants with base substitutions in the replication origin region (oriC) of the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome which had previously been cloned in colicin E1 plasmid vectors, and various mutants in defined regions of oriC were successfully isolated at high efficiencies. Analysis of these mutants provided evidence that oriC contains special regions, designated spacers, which separate neighboring important sequences specifying interactions with initiation factors for DNA replication at precise distances.
Keywords:Recombinant DNA  sodium bisulfite  circular heteroduplex  oriC  restriction analysis  sequencing  ampicillin resistance  bp  base pairs  dNMP  any of the four deoxyribonucleotides  dNTP  any of the four deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates  EtBr  ethidiurn bromide  kanamycin resistance
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